FOUR-HOUR MINI SERIES BASED ON KING'S ICONIC BESTSELLING SUPERNATURAL THRILLER STARRING PIERCE BROSNAN TO PREMIERE FOURTH QUARTER 2011http://www.aetv.com/news/a-e-to-present-stephen-king%27s-bag-of-bones-mini-series-starring-pierce-brosnan-17194046
A&E Network will begin production next month on "Stephen King's Bag of Bones," a four-hour epic mini-series thrill-ride based on the New York Times number one bestselling novel, featuring Pierce Brosnan's return to television. The two-night event from Sony Pictures Television is scheduled to premiere in the fourth quarter of 2011.
"Bag of Bones" will also star Anabeth Gish, with additional cast to be announced shortly. Mick Garris is set to direct the Matt Venne penned script, based on The New York Times #1 bestseller by Stephen King. Filming will take place in Nova Scotia, Canada.
"Bag of Bones" is the story of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire and a new love haunted by past secrets. Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, played by Pierce Brosnan, is unable to stop grieving after the sudden death of his wife Jo. A dream inspires him to return to the couple's lakeside retreat in western Maine where he becomes involved in a custody battle between the daughter of an attractive young widow and the child's enormously wealthy grandfather, the mysterious ghostly visitations, the ever-escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.
"Bag of Bones" is produced by Sony Pictures Television for A&E. Executive producers are Mark Sennett for Mark Sennet Entertainment, Inc., Mick Garris for Nice Guy Productions, Inc., Stewart Mackinnon for Headline Pictures Limited and Craig Sheftell. Brian Gary and David Davoli are the co-executive producers.
TVGuide.com reports that George will play Mattie Devore, a young mother caught in a custody battle with her daughter's grandfather.Of course, Nova Scotia is home to Haven and is absolutely beautiful. Can't wait to see more of it.
Brosnan will play Mike Noonan, a widowed novelist who helps Mattie in her fight to keep her child.
The series will be shot in Nova Scotia, Canada, with Mick Garris (Riding the Bullet, The Shining (TV miniseries) and The Stand) directing.
Bag of Bones will premiere on the A&E network in the US later this year.
Pam's father was a retired Marine. He and his wife had relocated to Palm Desert, California, in the last year of the twentieth century, settling in one of those gated communities where there's one token African-American couple and four token Jewish couples. Children and vegetarians are not allowed. Residents must vote Republican and own small dogs with rhinestone collars, stupid eyes, and names that end in i.That's funny! I have no idea if it is true, since I have never been in a gated community in Palm Desert. There are an awful lot of golf courses though -- never been to any of those, either. We just go to the mall.
“I went to a flea market when I was 15 years old and bought a copy of the Dead Zone by Stephen King. At the time I was really interested in science fiction and fantasy. I didn’t have any interest in Stephen King or horror. The cover looked cool and it was 75 cents. And the Dead Zone turned out to be one of the best novels I ever read and I loved it and that got me interested in Stephen King which in turn got me interested in horror."Like Stephen King, Ray was an English teacher for a short time. But he didn't like it, and has found that owning a bookstore allows him to make a bigger contribution to literacy.
Flemming writes, "I'm told that this time, the studio reviewed Goldsman's script for the first film and the first leg of the TV series, and would only commit to the single film. That wasn't good enough for the filmmakers, who had already hired comic book and Heroes and Battlestar Galactica writer/producer Mark Verheiden to co-write the TV component with Goldsman, which was to be made for NBC Universal Television (studio insiders deny that the studio was only willing to make the movie and not the series). I know the filmmakers planned to make it all part of the first shoot while they had the cast in place and the sets erected. I'd heard back in May that Warner Bros--where Goldsman's Weed Road is based and which is fully financing two installments of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit--was a possible landing place for the adaptation of King's 7-novel epic that is that author's answer to Tolkien's LOTR novels. The Dark Tower is about the last living member of a knightly order of gunslingers, with Deschain becoming humanity’s last hope to save civilization as he hits the road to find the Dark Tower. Along the way, he encounters characters, good and bad, in a world that has an old West feel." http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/universal-wont-scale-stephen-kings-the-dark-tower-studio-declines-to-make-ambitious-trilogy-and-tv-series/So what's the bottom line? Why did they drop such a great project? Flemming thinks it's money. That's probably right on. The project would be huge, and if filmed in large chunks (several movies at once) no income would be seen for some time. Still, I think they're passing up a cash cow!
In Stephen King’s “The Shining”, the brilliant director Stanley Kubrick, who also wrote the screenplay with help from Diane Johnson, was able to take a terrific book and make, some would say, an even better movie. However, there were quite a few distinct differences between the two that left fans of the novel crying foul, but didn’t affect the film viewer, at all.Cancel goes on to discuss John Ajvide Lindquist’s “Let the Right One In”, and Anne Rice’s “Interview with a Vampire". Read the full article here: http://www.examiner.com/anne-rice-in-national/from-page-to-screen-what-makes-a-great-horror-movie-adaptation
In the novel, Danny can, actually, see Tony. In the movie, any interaction takes place within his head. Also, in the novel it’s Tony who doesn’t want to go to the “Overlook”, in the movie it’s Danny.
In the novel, Dick Hallorhan lives and “The Overlook” is destroyed; in the movie, Dick Hallorhan dies and “The Overlook” lives on. In the movie, we all remember the part where Wendy finds Jack’s novel and reads it; in the novel she never reads Jack’s play.
And, those are just to name a few.
"The studio's top priority is a multi-picture adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand. Our spies tell us that Yates is flying into town tomorrow, and has been rereading King’s epic-length supernatural classic. We’re told Yates will decide if he wants to do the film sometime in the next two weeks. It is a big commitment, as the studio wants to split the giant book into three parts."That said, the article also gives this grim comment, "one could imagine the studio backing away from that aspiration, just as we heard that Universal was getting nervous about its plan to turn King's Dark Tower series into three movies and a two-season TV series." Ouch! That wasn't nice.
At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop, a place where place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who’s supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play “paratroopers over the side.”I don't know who writes the promos -- but I think the mention of Christine is significant. For a while it seemed King felt Christine didn't "work" because of the narration shifts. However, over time the novel seems to have held its own as a genuine slice of horror. I'm glad to see it getting a bit of attention again!
Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.
Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn’t been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says “closed, no services.” The driver’s door opens but nobody gets out.
Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls “the ultimate insurance manual,” but it isn’t going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.
Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton’s cracked cell phone near the wagon door – and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids – Rachel and Blake Lussier –and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon.
With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs...
"I read about it and I was very flattered because they ran a picture of me and of Lindsay Lohan. I was like, 'Oh my God, she's really a beautiful girl' and so I was very flattered. I was also flattered that they were casting someone to look like me instead of the real Carrie described in the book. It's gonna be real interesting."Hilton offers Lohan this word of encouragement: "Not to worry, LiLo! With so much support in your corner for the originators of the story and film, you're bound to be seriously considered."
"Several staffers planned to donate their copies to the blood bank to award to a few lucky blood donors. When King learned of this, the next day he sent over a dozen autographed books, including some rare boxed editions signed by the illustrator as well."That's awesome! Anyone donating to the blood drive will be eligible to win a hard-bound, autographed copy of one of King’s books. No big deal? Well, check this out -- I spotted “The Shining” on the list. Not to shabby, eh! Also listed were “Full Dark, No Stars” and “Hearts in Atlantis.”
The front art is an old-school painting celebrating the new rubber-suit-monster opus CREATURE, for which we’ve got an exclusive interview and photos. We also preview DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK with writer/producer Guillermo del Toro and director Troy Nixey, FRIGHT NIGHT with director Craig Gillespie and star Colin Farrell, STRAW DOGS with director Rod Lurie, the British knockout ATTACK THE BLOCK and the 3D flicks SHARK NIGHT and FINAL DESTINATION 5, plus an extensive chat with Sissy Spacek on CARRIE and much more.
the audience began to clap rhythmically and call for Baby, Can You Dig Your Man? he looked down int he first row and felt a slapping dash of cold ice water fear. Charles Manson was there, the X on his forehead healed to a white twisted scar, clapping and chanting. And Richard Speck was there, looking up at Larry with cocky impudent eyes, and unfiltered cigarette jittering between his lips. They were flanking the dark man. Flagg was leading the chant.Freaky! I like those kind of cultural references.
(Thinking? Praying?)The merging to two Larry's into one is very nice. Most of us live with two people; the person we reveal and the person we really are.
It was all the same thing. Whichever it had been, the old wound in himself had finally closed, leaving him at peace. He had felt the two people that he had been all his life -- the real one and the ideal on -- merge into one living being. His mother would have liked this Larry. And Rita Blakemoor. It was a Larry that Wayne Stukey never would have had to tell the facts of life to. It was a Larry that even that long-ago oral hygienist might have liked.
I'm going to die. If there's a God -- and I now believe there must be -- that's His will. We're going to die and somehow all of this will end as a result of our dying. (p.753)
STEPHEN King has vices, but writer's block? The man wrote 2000 words a day for most of his career. I'm not saying he's nerveless: King threw the manuscript of Carrie in the trash before his wife fished it out and urged him to finish it. But no genre writer is as prolific and popular. To the extent that Lee Gambin's King of Bangor is intended to serve as a dramatic illustration of writer's block, it's barking up the wrong tree.Since I haven't seen the play, I'll reserve comment.
Luckily, that's not all it does. The one-act play features a passable King lookalike (Peter Berzanskis) perched on a throne at a typewriter. He's stuck. Characters from his fiction crowd him as he downs Scotch at an alarming rate, snorts lines and gobbles pills.
